In 1835 South Durham MP Joseph Pease succeeded in getting a Bill passed in Parliament ending bull baiting, dog fighting and cock fighting. But the annual Bull run in Stamford was to continue.  Here I consider this, how this was resisted and then consider the consequences of a recent occurrence of a young bull running through the middle of Birmingham.

George Adams Shop in The Crescent Spalding Of the four businesses I have chosen as the pillars upon which Spalding’s food industry was built George Adams & Son is the only one that was established in the town centre. In 1910 George Adams started a small butchers shop at 25 The Crescent in Spalding. Early adverts seem to emphasize the availability of small joints and cuts: “Small half-bred mutton for sale. Half-shoulders 2s. to 2s. 6d; half legs 3s. to 3s. 6d.; other joints cu